State v. Schofield

Defendant was indicted for burglary, tried by jury before Morris, J., and found guilty. His pretrial motion to suppress evidence taken from him, consisting of a boot, was denied and his exception reserved and transferred.

On February 10, 1972, a burglar alarm located in the Benjamin Adams home on Adams Pond Road in Derry which was connected to the police station became activated. Police officers who answered a call from the station at 1:22 a.m. discovered upon their arrival at the Adams house that it had been the subject of a recent burglary. They observed an automobile, which they knew…